Butter-cutter.



F. G. KAPELMAN. BUTTER GUTTER. APPLIOATION FILED JUNI: 15, 190e.

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FELIX G. KAPELMAN, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

BUTTER-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 30, 1909.

Application led June 15, 1908. Sera1No.43S,684.

T o all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, FELIX G. KAPELMAN, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica,

and a resident of the city of Seattle, in the i county of King and Stateof VWashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inButter-Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has special reference to improvements in implements forcutting and removing from bodies of butter portions thereof ofpredetermined volume or weight.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a simplified andimproved device of the above type.

Further objects and advantages will be set forth as the descriptionprogresses and those features on which i desire protection dened in theappended claims.

"In lthe accompanying drawing l have illustrated the invention in suchform as now preferredby me.

With reference to the drawing, wherein similar reference charactersdesignate corresponding parts throughout: Figure 1 is a pers'iectiveview illustrating my improved imp ement in operation on a body ofbutter, and Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view thereof in brokensection.

The present invention includes a carrier as 1 conveniently consisting ofa rectangular plate' having angular side and end extensions 2, .3respectively, to the latter of which is secured a rearwardly projectinghandle 4. The carrier 1 and extension 2 are each sharpened along theforward edge to conveniently provide cutters as 5 and 6 which areadapted to produce an angular dividing cut by endwise movement of thedevice.

Lying in substantially a common plane with vcutters 5 and 6 is a cutteror blade 7 which is secured to a rock shaft 8 extending longitudinallyof carrier 1 opposite to eXtension`2w This shaft is supported insuitable journals and connected with a reti-acting spring as 9 arrangedto yieldingly hold'the shaft in normal position with cutter 7 extendingvertically, as clearly shown.`

To operate cutter 7 for cutting l have provided a thumb lever 10 whichis disposed above the base of handle 4 and fulcrumed on lugs 3 ofextension 3. This lever is connected with an arm 8 of shaft 8 by meansof a cord or wire 11 which plays on a guide 12 supported above lever 10on a bracket 13 of extension 3.

14 designates a guide conveniently consisting of an outturned side edgeportion of extension 2 which is provided with graduations as 15 suitablyarranged relatively to the plane of cut of cutter 7 to indicate therequired length of the portion of butter to be cut to obtain a desiredweight as will be understood from the following.

Opposite to cutter 6 is a gage, as 16 which extends upwardly fromcarrier l to indicate the width of the portion of butter to be eut.

ln operating on a body of butter as A, the operator grasps handle 4 andpresses the device endwise into said body at one corner with guide 14engaging the top surface thereof and gage 16 just clearing the adjacentside surface of such body until the graduation on said guide whichindicates the weight of butter desired registers with the adjacent edgeof the body. The thumb is then applied to lever 10 to depress the sameand thereby swing cutter 7 downwardly to sever the portion of butter oncarrier 1 from the body. T he device may then be removed with theportion of butter out and inverted to transfer such portion to a sheetof wrapping paper.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States of America, is:

1. An implement for cutting and transferring comprising a carrier havinga handle for movement into a body of butter, cutting means movable withthe carrier for producing a dividing cut, a cutter movable on thecarrier for transverse cutting, a thumb lever on the carrier extendingover said handle,

'and connected with said cutter to move the same.

2. An implement for cutting and transferring comprising a carrier havinga handle, cutting means movable with the carrier for producing adividing cut, a shaft journaled on said carrier, a cutter fixed to saidshaft for producing a transverse cut, and means arranged in proximity tothe handle of said carrier and connected to said shaft to rotate thesame.

Signed at Seattle, Tashington this 2S day of May 1908.

FELIX G. KAPELMAN.

Vitnesses:

HERGHMER JOHNSTON, FRANK E. ADAMS.

